The Cancer Finishing School: Lessons in Laughter, Love and Resilience by Peter Goldsworthy
$37.00 AUD
Category: Biography / Memoir
From poet and bestselling novelist Peter Goldsworthy, this darkly funny, bittersweet memoir offers lessons in how to live life in the shadow of an incurable illness. 'My first stray thought- cancer is a gift. I'm lucky to have it. What priceless material for a doctor-writer.' What lessons might cancer t ...Show more
A Tale of Love and Darkness (US PB) by Amos Oz
$31.00 AUD
Category: Biography / Memoir
Tragic, comic, and utterly honest, this bestselling and critically acclaimed work is at once a family saga and a magical self-portrait of a writer who witnessed the birth of a nation and lived through its turbulent history. It is the story of a boy growing up in the war-torn Jerusalem of the forties and ...Show more
A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf
$31.00 AUD
Category: Biography / Memoir
Part of the Hero Classicsseries "Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size." Based on two talks given by the author, and first published in September 1929, Virginia Woolf's seminal essay rev ...Show more
Half a Life - A Memoir by Jill Ciment
$27.00 AUD
Category: Biography / Memoir
Jill Ciment weaves an unforgettable tale of survival, compassion, and courage, in this haunting recollection of a child surrounded by confusion and madness, and her struggle to find an identity. Half a Life traces Jill Ciment's family from Toronto to the California desert--a landscape and culture so al ...Show more
A Tale of Love and Darkness by Amos Oz
$28.00 AUD
Category: Biography / Memoir
Love and darkness are just two of the many forces which run through Amos Oz's extraordinary, moving autobiographical novel. He takes us on a bold, courageous journey through his childhood and adolescence, and into the infernal marriage of two kind, well-meaning people- his parents. At the tragic heart o ...Show more
Clouds over Paris - The Wartime Notebooks of Felix Hartlaub by Felix Hartlaub; Simon Beattie (Translator)
$26.00 AUD
Category: Biography / Memoir
New paperback of the acclaimed, sharply immediate diary written from the heart of Occupied Paris by a classic German writer
Things I Didn't Throw Out by Marcin Wicha
$26.00 AUD
Category: Biography / Memoir
A wry and unsentimental account of the attempt to understand a parent as an independent person with their own history.
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men by James Agee
$42.00 AUD
Category: Biography / Memoir
In the summer of 1936, Agee and Evans set out on assignment for "Fortune" magazine to explore the daily lives of sharecroppers in the South. This book provides a record of the place, of the people who shaped the land, and of the rhythm of their lives.
Encounters and Destinies - A Farewell to Europe by Stefan Zweig; Will Stone (Translator)
$28.00 AUD
Category: Biography / Memoir
A new collection of essays by Stefan Zweig: tributes to the great artists and thinkers of the Europe of his day Stefan Zweig was one of the twentieth century's greatest authors and a tireless champion of freedom, tolerance and friendship across borders. Encounters and Destinies collects his most impassi ...Show more
War Doctor: Surgery on the Front Line by David Nott
$25.00 AUD
Category: Biography / Memoir
The #1 internationally bestselling, gripping true story of a frontline trauma surgeon operating in the world's most dangerous war zonesFor more than 25 years, surgeon David Nott has volunteered in some of the world's most dangerous conflict zones. From Sarajevo under siege in 1993 to clandestine hospita ...Show more
Rental Person Who Does Nothing: A Memoir by Shoji Morimoto
$33.00 AUD
Category: Biography / Memoir
Today, I’m starting a ‘rent a person who does nothing‘ service . . . Except for very simple conversation, I’m afraid I can do nothing. Shoji Morimoto was constantly being told that he was a ‘do-nothing’ because he lacked initiative. Dispirited and unemployed, it occurred to him that if he was so good a ...Show more
Sleepless: A Memoir of Insomnia by Marie Darrieussecq
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography / Memoir
"I lost sleep. I retraced my steps but sleep wasn’t following me. It had broken free and I was wandering through the night without it. The world is divided into those who can sleep and those who can’t. What is it like to live with chronic insomnia? For Marie Darrieussecq, not sleeping began after the bi ...Show more